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>That said, as much as I have complaints about Safari, if this spreads beyond the EU, that’s practically handing Chrome a monopoly on a silver platter.

>Ignoring my general distrust of large-scale government regulation on a free market.

So, free market is fine until free market(the users that will install and use Chrome because it's better than Safari) does something you think it's bad.

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That’s assuming the free market is what drives users to chrome and not: This browser is unsupported, switch to Chrome now

Yeah this is what I was intending. I don’t have a problem with individuals using Chrome (I think it’s a bad choice overall but it’s their choice). However “YouTube works best in Chrome” and “GMail works best in Chrome” because they depend on some tracking API, it’s not really the choice of the user anymore.

Good thing WebDRM got delayed ‘cause I don’t want to install Chrome just to use my banking app.

Chrome's market share it's not because Youtube does not work in Firefox/Safari(it works) or because of any scare tactics Google uses.

This is not assuming anything, Chrome has the market share it has because it's an better browser than any alternative.

I think that monopolies are generally bad for the user, but I don’t think that government regulation is the proper solution.

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